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To: presidio9; hosepipe; Alamo-Girl; MHGinTN
Hi presidio9! I think the way most people today would understand the question, "Do you believe in evolution?" would be as "do you believe in Darwinian evolution?"

A person can answer that question in the negative and not deny evolution outright; and accepting evolution in the broadest sense, not contradict the divine creation of the universe.

It seems God created a universe that evolves, is capable of development. Big bang and Genesis are not inconsistent with each other. Both describe "evolution" of some sort. Darwin got his insights for biological evolution principally from this source; i.e., the universe evolves, so it is reasonable to suppose that biological life must do likewise. So far, so good. But it seems to me Darwin got the assumption of a purely random development of exclusively material bodies out of thin air.

To me, all the word "random" really denotes is "something we don't understand." Just like the idea of so-called "junk DNA." We only call it "junk" because we don't yet understand what it does....

It is this context that Huckabees' and Brownbacks' and Tancredo's raised hands need to be understood. IMHO, FWIW.

162 posted on 06/16/2007 10:35:52 AM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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To: betty boop
Very well said! Thank you!
163 posted on 06/16/2007 11:06:08 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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